Translation - English"... It is well known that from the very first years after the conquest the Venetians enforced the substitution of the Orthodox higher echelons by the Catholic and strictly monitored the activities of the low-ranking Orthodox clerical orders by implementing the policy of their gradual subordination to the Church of Rome - a policy which encountered vigorous resistance and ultimately failed pitiably. All of these factors - the Venetians' attitude towards Orthodoxy, combined with the traditional animosity between the two creeds, the hatred of every subject for his master, and finally, the bloody struggles of the Greeks of the island to shake off the Venetian yoke - contributed to the creation of a profound psychological gulf between the Italian and Greek elements. During the first centuries of Venetian rule the Greeks and Venetians lived in an atmosphere of intolerance and mutual distrust, each adhering to their own traditions. Cross-cultural interaction, that intersection between the Byzantine and Western civilisations which was to prove so fertile later, was rudimentary and inoperative until about the middle of the fifteenth century..."

Translation - English"Alfons struck quite a figure to whoever met him. Many thought he was a spy, other thought he was a play boy, but he himself said many times that he was a 'good opportunist'. But this ambiguous man had an internal flame for Greece and his sorrow was that he was not born Greek. He was truly wise with an unswerving and pure character. He knew how to appreciate and to love the simplest and most inconsequential of things. His profound, striking blue eyes would look at you so searchingly that they would nail you to the spot. His life was an incredible game that he played on his own terms. He knew how to impose himself and his words were short and direct. His remarks to the staff were strict so that they would exercise care and seek perfection. The reputation of the guesthouse was such that disappointment on the part of customers could not be permitted. He was continuously on the go, he wouldn't take tiredness into account. Despite all his constant activity he would find time to busy himself with the organising and planning of his work. He would even steal time away from sleep in order to read and write.
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In a letter to the newspaper POSTMAN, the then President of the Association of Lawyers of Volos, D. Dimitriou, refers to the way in which Alfons-Andreas chose to die: "As a thought and as an act, his decision moves every contemplative person as it cannot but be attributed to a person with great spiritual and psychological strength, capable of scorning earthly reality when it has become only torment and sadness for himself and cause for disillusionment for those around him. The ancients would wish for an 'old age free of travail and with a merciful death', equivalent to what our people refer to as a 'good old age'. This is what Andreas Hochhauser has accomplished."...

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